Becoming rich isn’t about money. It’s about who you become in the process. The reason why most of us will not become rich is that we are not willing to BE rich. Rich people think differently to poor and middle class people. For example, rich people look for opportunities while poor people complain about the lack of opportunity.

This suggests to me that the idea of middle class is nonsense. One either does poor man thinking or one does rich man thinking. Can you flip between the two? Absolutely. However, sooner or later one way of being will be dominant and because we are hardwired to think negatively it is more likely to be poor man thinking.

As Sonia Ricotti says, “Complaining about what is, and blaming others for it, is choosing to be a victim. Negative thoughts prevent energy flow and keep us stuck.” When I first heard this the thought occurred to me that negative or poor man thinking prevents the operation of higher laws we commonly call miracles. So my question is – if poor man thinking is the norm why is it that some people are able to break the cycle of negativity that most of us live with? And how do they do it?

For the past 4 months I’ve been faced with the challenge of dealing with a mountain of clutter and I haven’t wanted to do it. Somehow, in January, the thought occurred to me to turn it into a story of how it came to be and what I was doing about it, or not doing.
This has proved to be successful so far that, in mid February, I decided to write my story of money, the lack of it and what I’m doing about it and not doing about it. Very enlightening. How about writing a story of how I wanted it to be? I’d be using the same principles that have created the lack of money and the abundance of clutter.

Ah, I see that the private writing I’ve done in the past on this has been complaining.That’s why I’ve been stuck. I’ll let you know how this experiment goes in the next fewissues.

David Hands
Millionaire in training